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Notes from Vegan
Outreach

New Records Daily!

Adopt
a College leafleters have already
taken the animals' plight directly
to 337,254 students this fall, bringing
the total for 2008 to 828,254!

High school animal
defender Anna with friend Luna.

Thanks to our dedicated donors
and industrious leafleters, every
single day, thousands and
thousands of new people
learn the detailed and documented
truth that modern
agribusiness fights so hard to hide.
But we won't be cowed, and we won't
be silenced -- we will
be the animals' voice!

This work is changing lives
everysingleday-- just see below!

Request of the Week

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Products of the Week

Lauren Porsch: So Delicious just
came out with a line of coconut
milk yogurts (cultured
coconut milk). They really are So
Delicious! It’s also got a great
nutritional profile – it’s fortified
with calcium and Vitamin
B12. (Also see Coconut
Bliss ice cream.)

Leslie Patterson: Year
of the Dog is
a beautiful movie about animal activism
starring Molly Shannon. If you can
stop laughing and crying long enough
to see the movie, you will love
it.

Notes from All
Over

Lightning Round

Notes from Our
Members

While
leafleting at the University of
Colorado, a man told
me, "You're going to change
the world one person at a time."-Barbara Bear, 10/3/08

Stephanie Scott
reaches another William and Mary
student; below, smilin' Vic Sjodin
reveals the animals' plight to one
of the 54,073 students he has reached
already this semester.

I got one of your booklets,
and am now giving
up all meat. I gave up lamb long
ago, but now chickens and all others.
Please send me more booklets to
distribute!-LM, 10/2/08

Today when I arrived
at Western Connecticut State University,
one of the first people
I handed a leaflet to was Jenn --
she was very excited to see another
vegan on campus and asked a few
questions about VO. She later joined
me to help leaflet, and brought
a friend, Carolyn, to help as well!
Security asked what we were advertising,
and when I said, "Helping animals,"
he said, "Cool." Best
quote of the day: "I have one
of those -- that's what made me
a vegetarian!"-Eileen Botti, 9/29/08

Yesterday, our new
group at Middle Tennessee State
was out there spreading
the message. Everyone was really
receptive and we met several students
who were once veg and wanted to
give it another shot! The best part
of the whole thing was the day after
leafleting, I walked into my 9am
class and found a copy of Compassionate
Choices on the desk in front
of me with "READ ME" written
on the cover!-Kenny Torrella,
10/3/08

Thank you for coming
to Shippensburg University
and handing out pamphlets. I have
been thinking about going vegetarian
recently, and it gave me the extra
push to do it.-SO,
10/3/08

I
just wanted to thank you for
the brochures. My group hosted a
tabling event on Oct 2 and distributed
Why Vegan? and Even
if You Like Meat to students.
We had a great response and have
recruited about 15 students (in
beef country -- Montana) to be a
part of our group. The pamphlets
have been most helpful. -Jen Gross, 10/5/08

We had another amazing
leafleting experience at
a companion animal event! "A
line of thousands of animal-friendly
people conveniently lined up for
us," as Leslie put it. I took
the stragglers, most of whom had
already been offered a leaflet,
but Joe, who, with Leslie and the
others, was in the "heavy flow"
of walker traffic, reported, "Really
very little antagonism and lots
of 'little lightbulbs' going off
as people reached for the booklets
and seemed ready to think about
our treatment of farmed animals.
An outstanding use of time."-Pam Blair, 9/30/08

I took the second of
ten vacation days
that will be used this semester
to help stop animal suffering, and
crossed time zones to visit Western
Michigan University, where I heard
many supportive comments. Also experienced
some antagonism, but these no longer
affect me negatively, as I understand
them to be a defense mechanism of
those who realize they are causing
needless suffering. Had a male student
come up to me to apologize for having
been nasty to me last semester.
I let him know that the apology
was accepted and asked that he seriously
look at the intense suffering we
are trying to redress. He took a
booklet and began reading.
Earlier
at Ball State, Matt McEwen and I
encountered over 30 vegetarians
and at least 6 vegans. A student
let
me know that getting a booklet last
semester had moved her to become
vegan. Another student told her
friend in my presence that this
booklet had caused her to go vegetarian.
Exchange of the day:
Me
- Help stop violence!
2 of the 3 female students take
the booklet, then, as they are passing
Matt, he hears:
Student
1 - That was really powerful, what
he said.
Student
3 - What, I don't get it....
Student
2 - You don't usually think about
the animals behind meat, you just
think of it as food, but there is
violence in it. -Joe Espinosa (at right),
10/1/08

Vegan Outreach is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing the suffering of farmed animals by promoting informed, ethical eating.